li-

Curripaco

Prefix

li-

  1. third person singular masculine agent marker

Reference

  • Swintha Danielsen, Tania Granadillo, Agreement in two Arawak languages, in The Typology of Semantic Alignment (edited by Mark Donohue, Søren Wichmann) (2008, →ISBN, page 398

Phuthi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *ni-.

Prefix

li-

  1. you, you all; second-person plural subject concord.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *ní-.

Prefix

li-

  1. you, you all; second-person plural object concord.

Etymology 3

From Proto-Nguni *íli-, from Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-, plus augment. Originally the pronominal and verbal concord, it displaced the older Bantu noun prefix *ì-. The tone was lowered by analogy with other noun prefixes.

Prefix

li-

  1. Class 5 noun prefix.

Etymology 4

From Proto-Nguni *lí-, from Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-.

Prefix

li-

  1. he, she, it; class 5 subject concord.
  2. him, her, it; class 5 object concord.

Swazi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *íli-, from Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-, plus augment. Originally the pronominal and verbal concord, it displaced the older Bantu noun prefix *ì-. The tone was lowered by analogy with other noun prefixes.

Prefix

li-

  1. Class 5 noun prefix.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *lí-, from Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-.

Prefix

li-

  1. he, she, it; class 5 subject concord.
  2. him, her, it; class 5 object concord.

Xhosa

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *lí-, from Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-.

Prefix

li-

  1. he, she, it; class 5 subject concord.
  2. him, her, it; class 5 object concord.

Zulu

Etymology 1

From Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-. Originally the pronominal and verbal concord, it displaced the older Bantu noun prefix *ì-. The tone was lowered by analogy with other noun prefixes.

Prefix

li-

  1. Class 5 simple noun prefix.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *lí-, from Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-.

Prefix

li-

  1. he, she, it; class 5 subject concord.
  2. him, her, it; class 5 object concord.

References

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